Woman Eats Six-Pound Hamburger

AP ^ | 1/17/05

[Kryptonite]

CLEARFIELD, Pa. Jan 17, 2005 — Kate Stelnick may weigh only 100 pounds, but her appetite is remarkable. The college student from Princeton, N.J., is the first to meet a restaurant's challenge by downing its six-pound hamburger and five pounds of fixins' within three hours.

Stelnick didn't eat for two days to prepare for the challenge. "I felt very full, but I was too excited that I actually ate it to notice," Stelnick said.

Stelnick, 19, made the five-hour drive to Denny's Beer Barrel Pub with two friends from The College of New Jersey on Wednesday, after they saw pictures of the monster burger, dubbed the Ye Old 96er.

Denny Leigey Jr., the owner of the bar 35 miles northwest of State College, had offered a two-pound burger for years and conceived of the six-pounder after his daughter went to college and phoned him about a bar that sold a four-pounder.

But nobody had finished the big burger in the three-hour time limit since it was introduced on Super Bowl Sunday 1998. In addition to the meat, contestants much eat one large onion, two whole tomatoes, one half head of lettuce, 1 1/4 pounds of cheese, two buns, and a cup each of mayonnaise, ketchup, mustard, relish, banana peppers and some pickles.

Stelnick did it all in two hours, 54 minutes.

Leigey said he was pretty sure somebody would meet his burger challenge, though he didn't have a petite woman in mind.

"I wouldn't have made it if I didn't think it was possible," Leigey said.

[Kryptonite]

Here's another article on the same story.

Amazing!

[The burger takes 45 minutes to cook, and those who try to meet the three-hour limit must use no utensils and eat all of these fixins: one large onion, two whole tomatoes, one half head of lettuce, 1 1/4 pounds of cheese, top and bottom buns, and a cup each of mayonnaise, ketchup, mustard, relish, banana peppers and some pickles.

. . .

For her trouble, Stelnick got a special certificate, a T-shirt and other prizes and _ as advertised _ Leigey picked up the $23.95 tab for the burger.]

Here are some photos of Ye Old 96er!

[Puppage]

[AppyPappy]

This could almost be Darwin material.

[Brian328i]

Reminds me of "The Whole Nine Yards" where Bruce Willis complains about Mayonnaise on a burger. :P

[Lazamataz]

It must have been a rare burger, because I can see a little red x inside a white square bun.

[Izzy Dunne]

contestants much eat one large onion, two whole tomatoes, one half head of lettuce, 1 1/4 pounds of cheese, two buns, and a cup each of mayonnaise, ketchup, mustard, relish, banana peppers and some pickles.

You want fries with that?

[Graybeard58]

I watched two big guys on tv last night try to eat a twelve and a half pound pizza. They ate about half of it.

The pizza cost $48.50 - the beer was free.

[loreldan]

This is no surprise. The small petite women are the biggest eaters in my experience. My wife is very small and petite, yet her voracious eating can put me to shame. When we go to the Outback I struggle to finish my steak, but she finishes hers and mine when room to spare!!!

[Kryptonite]

Laz, those are photos from the Snopes site.

[Graybeard58]

[Clara Lou]

Stupid thing to do. Just stupid.

[yarddog]

I remember one fourth of July celebration, we had an ice cream eating contest. It was limited to kids although I think they could be as old as 16.

I had set up the table with pints which had been donated by a local store. Just after the whistle blew, I turned to say something to someone and when I turned back, a girl had already finished hers.

It could not have been more than 15 seconds and I was astonished as no one else had even gotten started. She looked just like what one would have guessed. Very large and fat.

[Petronski]

I have been to Denny's (they have Guinness on tap), and I have seen the two pounder in person. The meat is probably doable (the two pounder), but that disgusting glop of mayo and peppers and lettuce and such (plus the loaf of bread bun) make even the two pounder impossible.

[Kryptonite]

Is that Eric "Badlands" Booker?

[Graybeard58]

I turned to say something to someone and when I turned back, a girl had already finished hers.

Whetting her appetite for the real contest.

[Graybeard58]

Looks like him.

[Tunehead54]

I got it when I selected "View image" maybe it takes as long to load as it does to eat it? ;-)

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[thoughtomator]

Oh, so that's how you prevent yourself from eating in the two days before the event.

[Joe 6-pack]

I sense the work of the Build-a-Burgers behind this....

[nothingnew]

I gotta get this article to Ann C.

FMCDH(BITS)

[Kryptonite]

My daughter is about the highest energy person I know - she can exercise literally all day long and only stop to visit the restroom and eat. When she's very hungry, and has some of her favorite food, it is nothing less than astonishing how quickly she can put it away.

[IamConservative]

Being a man, I cannot help but wonder what kind of event the next days constitutional is going to be. I've got those new Al Gore toilets. After a 6 pound burger, definitely have to be a road game.

[Petronski]

...a cup each of mayonnaise, ketchup, mustard, relish, banana peppers and some pickle...

[vomit]

Imagine just the condiments: four cups (combined) of slop comprised of mayo, ketchup, mustard and relish.

Nasty.

[popdonnelly]

I'll take one with a Diet Coke.

[Petronski]

The trip back to Jersey must have been real fun...

[theFIRMbss]

>Woman Eats Six-Pound Hamburger

[Happy2BMe]

B BB BURP!

(This puts the 5 lb. steak at the 'Big Texan' in Amarillo to shame - LoL!)

[Petronski]

Trying for a five pound steak would be fun.


This monstrosity has a (total) quart of condiments: equal parts mayo, ketchup, mustard and relish.

Bur...arf!

[WestTexasWend]

Reckon she's ready for this? >>>

http://www.texasbob.com/eats/tbe_bigtexan.html

[mhking]

I wonder if she's related to that anorexic looking kid who seems to win the Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Contest at Coney Island every year...

Just damn.

If you want on the list, FReepmail me. This IS a high-volume PING list...

[Happy2BMe]

The girl has a tape worm. Maybe three.

[gortklattu]

Michelle Moore?

[NCPAC]

Michael Moore has found his soulmate.

[Clara Lou]

You mean Toenail-cleaning Flatulating Publicly Michelle Moore?

[EveningStar]

At least it wasn't a six pound booger. :D

[dfwgator]

I'll take one with a Diet Coke.

Or follow it up with a "wafer thin" mint.

[octobersky]

LOL

[chiefqc]

M. Moore ate three burgers this size and washed them down with 5 Diet Cokes.

[July 4th]

Here's the beautiful Kate.

[Miss Behave]

LOL.

I wish the voracious little co-ed would go a whole semester without eating, get REAL hungry, then be put in a cage with a gravy-slathered Hillary.

[azhenfud]

"....1 1/4 pounds of cheese,"

"I felt very full..."

And after that much cheese, she'll keep feeling very full for about a month.

[Hermann the Cherusker]

She should go to Wing Bowl! She might beat the Black Widow!

[Bosco]

Clearfield/Clearfield county in Pennsylvania is where Bosco's family (dad's side) came from.

Jeetyet?

[Kryptonite]

Thanks for the photo - amazing to think that this little young lady ate all that crap. Look at those skinny arms .. .

[Mr Ramsbotham]

Very small, thin people need a lot more food relative to their body weight than large, thick ones. That's because their bodies have a higher percentage of surface area, from which body heat dissipates. To make up for the heat loss, they have to continually eat.

I used to work with a guy who was about 6 foot five and thin as a rail (though very muscular). This individual would fast all morning, then in the afternoon eat a large steak sandwich, and a dozen bakery donuts, one right after the other. Then he'd go back to his office and down a one and one-half pound bag of M&M's almond candies. And he never gained a pound!

[blanknoone]

My wife suggested the possibility that this woman is bulemic...that she is used to binging and purging. Something is out of the ordinary...no normal 100 pound woman's stomach could expand enough to hold that much food in that amount of time.

[Poohbah]

That's because their bodies have a higher percentage of surface area, from which body heat dissipates. To make up for the heat loss, they have to continually eat.

We had a thin, wiry guy in my USMC squadron. We deployed up to Alaska for an exercise, and he didn't modify his (already amazingly prodigious) eating habits.

He went mildly hypothermic one night on the flight line--the doctor prescribed him an extra helping at dinner.

[My Favorite Headache]

Damn and she is a lil hottie too...just wow

[Squantos]

There was one lady that weighed 98 pounds that ate "two" of the big texan 72oz steaks.........and asked for desert after the second one !

Next time yer in there read the bar top as to who, what , when and such. Amazing as to how anyone can do that. My Brother ate one of em and he was miserable ........ In early 70's in Upper Michigan (Kincheloe AFB) we had a little burger joint that had a 4 pound Paul Bunyan Burger. We could feen a family of six with that thing . Can't fathom this burger with all the "fixins".......wow !

[MeekOneGOP]

Burp? haha! More like puke! :^O

Kate Stelnick may weigh only 100 pounds, but her appetite is remarkable. The college student from Princeton, N.J., is the first to meet a restaurant's challenge by downing its six-pound hamburger and five pounds of fixins' within three hours.

Stelnick didn't eat for two days to prepare for the challenge. "I felt very full, but I was too excited that I actually ate it to notice," Stelnick said.

100 lbs??? She ate ELEVEN percent of her body weight? Wow.